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Trimble’s Multirotor Unmanned Aircraft System Transforms Geospatial-Based Mapping, Inspection Applications

Trimble announced today the ZX5 Multirotor Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), a new aerial imaging and workflow solution that captures and processes geo-referenced photo and video data for mapping, agriculture and inspection applications.

27 Aug 2015

Northrop Grumman, U.S. Navy Demonstrate Endurance Capabilities with MQ-8C Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter

Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy successfully demonstrated endurance capabilities with the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter. On a planned 10+ hour flight and range out to 150 nautical miles flight from Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu; the MQ-8C Fire Scout achieved 11 hours with over an hour of fuel in reserve.

27 Aug 2015

NASA's Johnson Space Center Awards $101.9 Million Contract Extension to Raytheon

NASA's Johnson Space Center has awarded to Raytheon Company a contract extension with a potential value of $101.9 million. Raytheon will continue to provide operations, maintenance and engineering services for up to four years to NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab (NBL) and Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (SVMF), facilities that are critical to safe human spaceflight.

24 Aug 2015

NASA Researchers Develop Gecko-Inspired Grippers for Space Applications

A piece of tape can only be used a few times before the adhesion wears off and it can no longer hold two surfaces together. But researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are working on the ultimate system of stickiness, inspired by geckos.

14 Aug 2015

Lockheed Martin Deploys First Components of UAS Traffic Management System

As Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) take to the skies, it is essential for safety that UAS operators and pilots are aware of each other.

4 Aug 2015

Windbot Robotic Probe Could Stay Aloft in Planet's Atmosphere Without Wings

Among designers of robotic probes to explore the planets, there is certainly no shortage of clever ideas. There are concepts for robots that are propelled by waves in the sea. There are ideas for tumbleweed bots driven by wind, rolling across Antarctica or Mars. Recently a team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, wondered if a probe could be buoyant in the clouds of Earth or a distant gas giant planet, like Jupiter.

24 Jul 2015

Energid Technologies to Develop Physics-based Robot Simulation to Support New NASA Missions

Energid Technologies Corporation has been funded by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a new robot simulation that accommodates uncertainty and discovers exceptional behaviors during mission planning.

20 Jul 2015

Astrobotic in Partnership with NASA Creates Preliminary Version of Flight Software for Griffin Lander

Astrobotic Technology, in partnership with NASA under the Lunar CATALYST initiative, has developed a preliminary version of its flight software for precision guidance. This software will direct the Griffin lander to safe touchdown on the Moon at a pit in the Lacus Mortis region on Astrobotic's first mission. Astrobotic developed the software using NASA's Core Flight Software (CFS), then validated Griffin's mission performance and fuel usage using NASA-proven modeling and simulation tools.

9 Jul 2015

Berkeley Lab Researchers Help Determine Radiation Risk of Exploring Underwater Aircraft Carrier

About 42 miles southwest of San Francisco and 2,600 feet underwater sits the U.S.S. Independence, a bombed-out relic from World War II. The aircraft carrier was a target ship in atomic weapon tests at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands during the war. Then, in 1951, it was loaded up with 55-gallon drums of low-level radioactive waste and scuttled just south of the Farallon National Wildlife Refuge off the California coast.

8 Jul 2015

Global Autopilot System Market Expected to Reach $4.1 Billion by 2020

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Autopilot System Market by Platform, by Component, by Application, by Geography, Do It Yourself Autopilot - Forecasts & Analysis (2014-2020)" report to their offering.

30 Jun 2015

Aerospace Robotics News

Trimble’s Multirotor Unmanned Aircraft System Transforms Geospatial-Based Mapping, Inspection Applications

Northrop Grumman, U.S. Navy Demonstrate Endurance Capabilities with MQ-8C Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter

NASA's Johnson Space Center Awards $101.9 Million Contract Extension to Raytheon

NASA Researchers Develop Gecko-Inspired Grippers for Space Applications

Lockheed Martin Deploys First Components of UAS Traffic Management System

Windbot Robotic Probe Could Stay Aloft in Planet's Atmosphere Without Wings

Energid Technologies to Develop Physics-based Robot Simulation to Support New NASA Missions

Astrobotic in Partnership with NASA Creates Preliminary Version of Flight Software for Griffin Lander

Berkeley Lab Researchers Help Determine Radiation Risk of Exploring Underwater Aircraft Carrier

Global Autopilot System Market Expected to Reach $4.1 Billion by 2020

What This Drone Detected Over Greenland Has Climate Scientists Rethinking Everything

Aardvark Weather: A New AI System That Replaces Traditional Forecasting Models

What Happens When You Put ChatGPT-4 Inside a Robot? A Lot More Than You’d Expect

NASA Rover Uncovers Biggest Clue Yet That Mars Could Have Supported Life

How Ethical are AI Chatbots for Children's Mental Health?

Automation in Nutritional Testing: How Technology is Improving Accuracy, Efficiency, and Compliance

Machine Learning in Immunology: From Epitope Prediction to Smarter Vaccine Design

Machine Learning’s Expanding Role in Environmental Health Research

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